Union Home Minister Amit Shah said some of the hospitals under the municipal corporations of Delhi will be converted into dedicated COVID hospitals and doctors and paramedics of paramilitary forces will be deployed in the national capital to deal with the shortage of manpower.
Former India opener Gautam Gambhir has gone into self-isolation, awaiting a COVID-19 test result, after revealing that someone at his home has contracted the virus.
After Union minister Ramdas Athawale tested positive for Covid-19, Bengali actress Payal Ghosh had also undergone Covid-19 test. Payal’s COVID result is out and the actress has, fortunately, tested negative.
After Union minister Ramdas Athawale tested positive for Covid-19, Bengali actress Payal Ghosh had also undergone Covid-19 test. Payal’s COVID result is out and the actress has, fortunately, tested negative.
An order in this regard was issued by Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Haryana.
SpiceJet has started facilitating COVID-19 testing for its passengers in India and the UAE with the help of VFS Global, a press release issued by the airline said on Tuesday.
'Naagin 5' actor Sharad Malhotra's co-stars Surbhi Chandna, Mohit Sehgal and Suchit Vikram Singh have undergone coronavirus tests. Mohit and Surbhi subsequently shared that they have tested negative.
The Delhi government has asked all districts to retest all symptomatic patients, who have tested negative for COVID-19 on rapid antigen test, using the more reliable RT-PCR method, after it found the process was not followed in over 1,400 cases.
Researchers have developed a method for fast, cheap, yet accurate testing for Covid-19 infection. The method simplifies and frees the testing from expensive reaction steps, enabling upscaling of the diagnostics.
India's COVID-19 testing capacity has surged to more than 12 lakh daily tests, said Union Health Ministry on Wednesday. Taking to Twitter, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said more than 6.5 cr total tests have been conducted across the country.
India conducted 2.39 crore COVID-19 tests in August, of which 1.24 crore were done using rapid antigen kits, the government said on Sunday.
Starting today, residents of Delhi can get themselves tested for COVID-19 through RT-PCR, without a doctor's prescription. Earlier, a prescription written by a registered medical practitioner was required at any testing centre, however, now it has been decided that there will be no requirement of a prescription from a qualified medical practitioner.
All travellers from India who are not Singaporeans and permanent residents will have to take a coronavirus test within 72 hours before departing for Singapore from next Thursday, in a move to reduce the number of imported cases from the country.
The facility, to be set up by a private laboratory empanelled by the Delhi government for Covid testing, is expected to be operational by mid-September.
According to MoHFW, over 11,70,000 tests done in India in last 24 hours. COVID-19 tally in the country stand at 38,53,407. The single-day spike of 83,883 new positive cases and 1,043 deaths reported in last 24 hrs.
International passengers who have to take connecting domestic flights after landing in India will have the option of getting themselves tested for COVID-19 at the entry airports, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Wednesday.
The prevalence of tuberculosis among COVID-19 patients has been found to be 0.37 to 4.47 per cent in different studies, the ministry said and highlighted that there has been an overall decline in tuberculosis notification by 26 per cent during January to June, as compared to the previous year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of coronavirus recoveries has reached nearly 21 lakhs nationwide as the country's recovery rate rises to nearly 74 percent.
USFDA has previously authorized four other tests that use saliva for sampling, but these yielded varying results. Authorization of the new test occurs amid ongoing disarray over COVID-19 testing.
Ramping up the daily testing for detecting coronavirus cases, India recorded a new high of over 7 lakh tests in a single day, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Sunday.
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